The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-15
RIOTOUs RUFFTANs.
A Mob's Work in the Streets
Of London.
THE POLICE VERSUS ROUGHS.
Sticks and Stones, Bricks and Broken
Bones at Proclaimed Meet
ing-other Notes.
A London Riot.

London police, forbidding the holding
of meeting in Trafalgar Square to-day,
was placarded throughout London last
night. At 8 O'Clock this morning Traf-
aIgar Square presented an animated ap-
pearance, owing to the continual arriv-
ing of bodies of police, small drafts hav-
ling been made from every district in
the metropolis. Three hundred gren-
adiers were stationed in the barracks in
rear of the National Gallery. Police to
the number of 1,50O formed a hollow
square four deep on the southern side
for the purpose of protecting Trafalgar
Square. twenty-five hundred more
we're held in reserve. There were
double patrols in all debouching streets.
Until l O'Clock there was no sign of a
procession. at that hour, groups,
mainly of sight-seers and roughs, began
to assemble in the vicinity of the
square, but a squad of mounted police
kept traffic moving and dispersed each
group as il formed. During these
charges, there were many exciting in
cidents. As the crowd thickened the
police were compelled to use their
| batons. By 8 clock there was an i'm
mense concourse of people packed on
the steps of st. Martins Church and
Morley's Hotel, and on the roofs OF
houses in the adjacent streets. The
majority seemed to be respectable peo-
mainder were loafers of the worst
classes. Several arrests were made
about this time. Finally various socie-
ties, of Socialist, Radical and Irish, ap-
preached the square from every direc-
ton. The paraders were headed by
bands of music, and they carried ban
ners and notices. The police attacked
and dispersed each group as it arrived
near the square. Fierce fights took
place on the Strand, Northum berland
Avenue, Whitehall, Pail Mall and other
adjacent streets. One of the societies
succeeded in entering the square, but
was repulsed after a bloody fight, in
which Commoner Graham was seriously
injured. Graham was subsequently ar
rested for attacking the police. At 4 80
.. N. the crowd in the vicinity of the
SOU are num- ered 10000 and the police
were powerless to thoroughly disperse
them. Cavalry and infantry were sum-
moned to the assistance of the police,
but no charge was made, as people of
OHu DC6dA ~ O1SpcISS 6L
dusk. About 200 citizens and forty
policemen were injured. Fifty persons
were arrested, among them being Social
list Burns. Some of the injured were
well enough to leave the hospital after
treatment. One patient was dreadfully |
burned with VitrIol, squirted from q |
syringe. Another declares that he was
bayoneted in the bullock. Two police
men were stabbed with knives. It was |
noticeable that the crowd while hooting !
the police cheered the cavalry and in- |
fantry posted in the middle of the |
square ready for action in case the
crowd broke the police line. If the |
crowd had succeeded in breaking the
line, it is believed the riot act would
have been read and theinfantry ordered
to fire.
When the cavalry force, with Colonel
Talbot at it's head, arrived from White
hall, and Magistrate Marsham pre-
pared to read the riot act in case such
warning should become necessary, the
crowd became good humored in marked
contrast with their demeanor on the
guards trotted eight abreast around the
square, cheers went up accompanied by
shouts of brave Marsham" We
want free Speech" I'VE are all true
Irishmen and Scotch
men," I'VE only want our legal rights.
IS cit zens of London" On the second
round of the square the guards elected
opposition from a mob of roughs in the
crowd who shouted: "Britons shall
lot be ruled by lead and bayonets"
Three groans were given for the Home
Secretary. The guards patrolIed the
square several times, and then turned
INTO adjacent streets. They succeeded
n awning the roughs and in greatly
thinning out the crowd. At 5 o'clock
,renadiers wheeled into the square with
1ayonets fixed, and with twenty rounds
If ball cartridges in their pouches. TnsY
we're accompanied by an ambulance.
They halted in front of the National {
Gallery and opened into line. The
mob was thus caught between the lines
If police and military, and the roughs l
we're compelled to run the gauntlet i
They were fastened on their way
" a shove from one policemen,
cuff on the ear from another, and a
tick by a third. Some of them showed
dispositiL n to maintain their ground,
,ut the soldiers brought their bayonets '
0 change position and the sight of C, Id 8
teel quickly decided them to retreat. c
IN officer of the grenadiers rushed to I
he front and ordered the men to re- I
lace their arms, and the soldiers then t
ontented themselves, with pounding
With their rifles on the toes of the
rowd. Eoxing the ears of the tur-
'ulent rou hs with vigor, seemed to de-
Ight the policemen. The crowd now I
rooted the military with energy, equal s
o that with which they had cheered 1
hem before. Soon after o'clock the ;
'olice made series of violent charges L
With their batons il determined efforts G
o clear the hole vicinity, many points @
# which had been crowded all the +
fternoon. During one charge the Q
Whole window of an electrical shop fell :
Nth crash. The crowd asserted that I
he window was broken by the hoofs of \
ONE of the policemen's horses. The I
olice, however, assert that bricks were [
brown at the windows. Losfers made 4
o. the contents of the windows, but a
he police recaptured many of the arti .
les and arrested the thieves. A min
te later, the window of refreshment
oom was smashed in by the pressure
the crowd. There we're one or two 8
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